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All you fuckers living in rusty places

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I found some rust on my NC “Rust free” roller purchase.
 
arse_sidewards said:
How? Isn't 2014 unit bearing? That should make it a lot easier?
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I have longer bolts of the right size to thread into the back of the hub and then i hit them with a hammer or air chisel. This thing was so rusted in that i blew the threads off the sacraficial bolts without moving the bearing. I ended up welding the bolt holes shut and using the same bolts. I have never had the bolts fail like that.
 
FleshEater said:
CV was probably seized to the unit bearing and bearing to the knuckle.
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The press in bearings do that too but you can't apply serious force to them because they're surrounded by a knuckle you need to not destroy.

I've thought of upgrading but it's easier to just keep running what I got. Also the press in ones are way cheaper.

DMG said:
I have longer bolts of the right size to thread into the back of the hub and then i hit them with a hammer or air chisel. This thing was so rusted in that i blew the threads off the sacraficial bolts without moving the bearing. I ended up welding the bolt holes shut and using the same bolts. I have never had the bolts fail like that.
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lol
 
I looked at those but i am not sure there was a place to push against aside from backing plate
 
Gravy said:
Does anyone else kick their cab corners randomly. It's like picking buggers


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I did that to my POSonoma, It had expanded metal and filler, I knew it and the guy I bought it from after I paid for it was butthurt about me putting holes in it.

Sent him this pic later.

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About a hundred hours to go and I was relocating, I passed it on.
 
DMG said:
I looked at those but i am not sure there was a place to push against aside from backing plate
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they got a really fancy puller for those at work, it's called "tommy" for whatever reason
it's way complicated and looks retarded expensive
it does push on the backing plate, but that's good because the backing plate is always adhered HARD to the bearing

my rivet buster would knock the bearing and backing plate loose as an assembly, but trying to separate them would destroy the backing plate

Salt. Fucking salt.
 
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The facebook shitbox used car resellers put those cheap fender flares on their trucks to cover up the rust.
 
Ebs said:
The facebook shitbox used car resellers put those cheap fender flares on their trucks to cover up the rust.
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I bought my Ranger from some small time flipper POS. Of course, no Yankee with more than two brain cells to rub together was going to see a dozen UMass employee parking stickers stacked up and fresh black paint and not call bullshit so I watched him drop the price in $200 increments from $2200 down to $1200 where I wound up buying it. :laughing:

Now here we are close to a decade later. The painted parts of the frame fared no better than what he didn't and all the places he got paint on the underside of the cab fared worse than the spots he didn't.

Could've just done nothing, listed it for $1200ish from the get go, moved it a month or two sooner and done less work.

These are the fucking idiots that give everyone who just wants to fix shit and get paid a bad name. We should buy them all bus tickets to the southwest and west coast. They'd fit right in out there.
 
In all seriousness regarding rockers and cab corners for those who are hack bodymen...

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This stuff comes in black or white. I've hand build rockers, smeared and sanded bondo liberally with a random orbital, primed, and painted with this stuff. I've used the black to add a 2 tone job to my white 2nd gen dodge, and used the white on a couple of other vehicles and slapped color-match aerosol over it. It's held up for years of running rock roads. I really like it.
 
Steve300xcw said:
thats crazy:laughing:
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The driver door was rubbing the fender causing the worst screeching noise possible everytime I needed to open/close the door. There was nothing holding the bottom of the fender on...... a couple good self tappers and she was back in business. At this point, it is pretty rough, has 260k miles, and I went from caring about it, to survival mode. I guess that isn't entirely true, I color matched the self tappers..... LOLOLOL


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95stepside said:
saw this today
you think flares hiding/holding rust is dumb, rocker covers are double extra dumb

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I'm gonna disagree - the rocker ones actually serve a purpose (or can). my Yukon rockers have holes. I cut my foot getting into the truck with sandals on one day. That made me realize it can't stay that way with my kid at the age she's gonna start climbing up into the truck. so do I spend a weekend hacking on metal rockers onto the pig, or an hour self-tapping some shitty plastic covers over that cost me $40? on a black truck they actually blend in pretty good

I'm tempted to find some plastic sheet of that material and make some "custom" covers for the rear quarter :homer: I am shocked nobody sells them. Thinking how many diamond plate corners I saw on the 90's jeeps, the GMT800 always rots in that area it'd be a good seller 10 years ago
 
The problem with all this plastic shit is it won't technically pass a safety inspection (Atleast not in Ontario, Canada) as there's no structural integrity to the repair. So your shit junk truck is still a shit junk truck.
 
Winchested said:
The problem with all this plastic shit is it won't technically pass a safety inspection (Atleast not in Ontario, Canada) as there's no structural integrity to the repair. So your shit junk truck is still a shit junk truck.
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Around here they only care that the holes are filled/patched and not jagged. Sure, they can fail you if it's literally rusting in half but that's a judgement call and they never do that because there's no money in it.

It's not about safety. It's about giving some mechanic leverage to upsell a shitty bondo job where $5 tape will do.
 
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